LekhoriLekhoriNot smooth; uneven.
rough hands
Approximate; hasty or careless; not finished.
a rough copy
Turbulent.
rough sea
The unmowed part of a golf course.
A rude fellow; a coarse bully; a rowdy.
In Wellington Street my brother met a couple of sturdy roughs, who had just rushed out of Fleet Street with still wet newspapers and staring placards. "Dreadful catastrophe!" they bawled one to the other down Wellington Street. "Fighting at Weybridge!"
To create in an approximate form.
Rough in the shape first, then polish the details.
To break the rules by being excessively violent.
In a rough manner; rudely; roughly.
I will warrant they prove such roaring boys as I knew when I served under Lumford and Goring, [...] —sleeping rough on the trenches, and dying stubbornly in their boats. Ah! those merry days are gone.
A surname.
From Middle English rough, roughe, roȝe, row, rou, ru, ruȝ, ruh, from Old English rūg, rūh, from Proto-Germanic *rūhaz. Cognate with Scots ruch, rouch (“rough”), Saterland Frisian ruuch, rouch (“rough...
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A scuffed and roughened area of the pitch, where the bowler's feet fall, used as a target by spin bowlers because of its unpredictable bounce.
[…] roughing is not a part of the sport, and will not be tolerated. Referees will not permit unfair practices that may cause injury to a contestant, and are held strictly responsible for enforcing these rules.
To commit the offense of roughing, i.e. to punch another player.